According to one study, some 84% of network attacks could have been thwarted if after checking the user ID and password, the organization had simply authenticated the identity of the invasive computer with commercially available software.

By Art Gillis
Just two days after I posted last week's blog here, Mitch Betts, Executive Editor at Computerworld, performed a cerebral correlation and concluded that another article sounded familiar. In her recent story, a CW reporter called banking IT "boring." I had called it "dull." Did someone commit plagiarism? Did we collaborate? I couldn't even tell you the reporter's name. And unlike reporters covering Iraq where there is one main event, technology has at least thousands of events

By Nancy Feig
Mark La Penta, CTO and COO for Insurance giant MetLife's new bank, talks about his role in MetLife Bank's quick success. He also speaks of the role "strategic incrementalism" will play in the future of financial

By Maria Bruno-BritzPatrick Ruckh, EVP & CIO, First Horizon
First Horizon EVP & CIO Patrick Ruckh talks to BS&T about the role IT plays in enabling others at the bank to better serve the customers. He also reflects on F

By Nancy Feig
Brian Stanfill, SVP of operations at Delaware County Bank & Trust, brings his love for challenges to his IT department. In this podcast, Stanfill discusses his key project at Delaware County, "Smart Deposit Sol

By Maria Bruno-BritzKurt D. Woetzel, CIO & Senior Executive Vice President, The Bank of New York
For Kurt Woetzel, CIO & senior EVP with The Bank of New York, financial services IT is a dynamic being, and the only w

To secure customer data, banks must employ appropriate policies and procedures, and educate employees and customers -- as well as implement technology solutions. Keeping security from becoming too onerous, however, can be a challenge.

What's the safest way to protect data on old hard drives? Pound. Pound. Pound. Pound them into little pieces. That's the advice of one security analyst who says data crooks are buying recycled hard drives and mining them for data.

By Art Gillis
Trying to find the best system is indeed a mistake. Best system according to whom? Is the best system for Citibank the best system for a de novo? Is the best system in California the best system in Maine? Don't be too quick to answer that one. The answer may be yes. Is the system with the largest number of users the best system? Every bank deserves the best fit, not the best system. And the process begins with what I call, "Know thyself."
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